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Mar 30, 2017 · Hico, Texas, celebrates Brushy Bill Roberts, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, the notorious gunman killed in 1881. Learn about the evidence, the controversy, and the legacy of this old man's tall tale.
Over the last century, at least two men surfaced claiming to be Billy the Kid – Miller and Ollie P. “Brushy Bill” Roberts of Hico, Texas. Those stories presuppose that Garrett killed the wrong...
- The Emergence of Brushy Bill Roberts
- Was Brushy Bill Roberts Actually Billy The Kid?
- The Debate Rages on
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Almost 70 years after Billy the Kid’s death (or alleged death, according to some), a man named Joe Hines made an interesting confession to his lawyer, William Morrison. In the midst of attempting to claim land belonging to his deceased brother, Hines told his lawyer that he was, in fact, Jesse Evans, a famous Wild West outlaw who had disappeared af...
While there were doubts about Brushy Bill Roberts’ credibility – a Roberts family Bible listed Oliver Roberts’ birth date as sometime in 1879, an impossibility if he was truly Billy the Kid, who died in 1881 – many believed his story. Supporters claimed that if Oliver Roberts was an identity he had simply adopted, he wouldn’t have cared about the b...
The debate over the validity of Brushy Bill Roberts’ claim has persisted into this century. In 2015, television personality Bill O’Reilly mentioned Brushy Bill Roberts in a book of his own and claimed that the amount of evidence supporting Roberts’ claim outweighed the amount that didn’t. Though numerous attemptshave been made, the most recent in 2...
Brushy Bill Roberts was a Texas outlaw who claimed to be Billy the Kid, the famous Wild West bandit who died in 1881. He said he escaped from prison and lived under a different name for 70 years, but his story is disputed and unproven.
In this episode, I will examine William Henry Roberts' account of July 14, 1881, the shooting at Ft. Sumner. I will also compare Roberts' statements with tho...
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Dec 2, 2003 · But in 1950, a Texas man named “Brushy Bill” Roberts claimed that he was the real Billy the Kid and that someone else had been shot in his place. He said he had lived incognito for decades but...
Oct 11, 2015 · But it wasn’t. It was part of an official homicide investigation backed by two sheriff’s offices, promoted in a History Channel program, given front-page treatment in the New York Times, and championed by then-governor and soon-to-be presidential contender Bill Richardson.
Oct 10, 2023 · The Billy the Kid Museum in Texas explores the theory that one of the Old West's most famous outlaws escaped death as Brushy Bill Roberts.
